Senior Compliance Assurance Officer

The Senior Compliance Assurance Officer plays a key role in delivering effective, risk-based compliance assurance across the EMAP region. This role is suited to someone who can combine strong hands-on assurance delivery with a broader responsibility to contribute to the continuous improvement across the function. You will lead and support compliance assurance reviews across a broad and varied business environment, working with stakeholders to assess controls, identify and test compliance risks, report findings clearly, and help drive actions through to resolution.   What You'll Be Doing: Lead assurance reviews and regional delivery • Plan and execute compliance assurance reviews in line with the Global Compliance Management Programme and the annual EMAP Compliance Assurance Plan • Define review scope, testing approach, and review programmes • Build and perform testing of compliance controls • Conduct fieldwork, reviews, and fact-finding meetings • Maintain clear, accurate, and high-quality working papers Turn findings into action • Prepare reports that clearly set out findings, risks, conclusions, and required actions • Work with business owners and management to agree practical action plans and mitigation steps • Track agreed actions through to closure and report on progress • Escalate high-risk issues where appropriate Shape the wider assurance approach • Support the Head of Compliance Assurance in developing and implementing the compliance risk monitoring and testing process • Provide input into the annual Compliance Assurance Plan • Support other EMAP Compliance colleagues in undertaking compliance testing and applying a consistent assurance approach • Help maintain and evolve the EMAP Compliance Assurance methodology, reporting templates, and GenAI tooling to improve productivity and effectiveness • This role will be reporting to the Head of Compliance, Monitoring, EMEA, APAC. What You'll need to bring to the team: • Good working knowledge of EU privacy and data protection regulation and its key principles • Experience planning and delivering assurance or testing reviews from scoping through reporting • Confidence using Excel and PowerPoint and developing or maintaining analysis and reporting tools • Strong organisation, planning, and project management capability • Around 5 years of experience in monitoring, testing, assurance, or audit within regulatory compliance • Experience working in a substantial regulated organisation, ideally in Financial Services Recruitment Fraud Awareness - Experian's recruitment process is conducted only through authorised channels. Recruitment communications will only be sent from an @experian.com email address. Experian will never ask candidates to make any payment as part of an application, interview, assessment, onboarding, or recruitment process. To apply for roles or verify opportunities, please visit experian.com/careers "#LI-Hybrid" Experian Careers - Creating a better tomorrow together Find out what its like to work for Experian by clicking here   Experian Careers - Creating a better tomorrow together Find out what its like to work for Experian by clicking here